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Design and feedback
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Students should be encouraged to think about what needs to be sorted out. They will need the names of the products, what they cost to buy, how many are required, what they will be sold for, sales figures, total cost, total sales and profits. These are our column headings ...
Students may want to one table to work out stock and another for profit perhaps. Having more than one table will allow students to use linking and achieve higher marks.
Product name |
Number bought |
Cost to buy |
Number sold |
Number left |
Total cost |
Sales price |
T Shirt |
100 |
£5.00 |
50 |
50 |
£500.00 |
£6.50 |
Jeans |
100 |
£12.00 |
60 |
40 |
£1,200.00 |
£15.60 |
This could be a simple design of a stock table, to work out sales price, total cost and number left after sales have gone through.
Product name |
Cost price |
Sales price |
Number sold |
Total cost |
Total sales |
Profit |
T Shirt |
£5.00 |
£6.50 |
50 |
£500.00 |
£325.00 |
-£175.00 |
Jeans |
£12.00 |
£15.60 |
60 |
£1,200.00 |
£936.00 |
-£264.00 |
This will be a simple profit table.
Some of the column headings are the same as they appear in both tables. Cells for the product name in the stock table can be linked to the cells in the profit table - inputting the product name in the stock table will mean that it will appear automatically in the profit table. This saves some typing! Students should discuss other data that can be linked ... and then the use of graphs.
User Feedback
Students should be encouraged to ask their peers for feedback on their designs so that they can make improvements.
- For example, they could include 'if statements' to show warnings
- It could involve setting up a mail merge system
Text books will help students - they should read about ways in which these systems could help the company.
Students' final design will involve revisions made to the original designs, showing formulae to provide 'if statements' or how tables can be used as the basis for company mail merging.
Final design ... |
